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DR. CHAO-HSIN CHU'S PLANS.

REMAINING IN CANTON;

BUT MAY VISIT NANKING FOR INAUGURAL CEREMONY.

A SPECIAL INTERVIEW,

BREAKING UP THE

"REDS."

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18th, 1928.

BANDITRY INSUR

ANCE.

TWENTY EXECUTIONS IN | AN ENTERPRISING SCHEME.

CANTON.

OTHERS CLEARING OUT.

AFTERMATH of big plot.

CHINESE COMPANY TO WAGE WAR AGAINST ROBBERS.

With banditry

rampant in China, a few entèrprising Chinese

FROM OCR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] gentlemen have formed a company

CANTON, July 17th.

Dr. Chao-Hsin Chu, the Commis

sioner for Foreign Affairs of Kwang tung, in a special interview with the representative of the Daily Preas, said that he has received two telegrams from Dr. C. T. Wang, Foreign Minister of the Nationalit Government, urging him to proceed to Nanking at once to assume the post of Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Of the two telegrams, he continued, one was in English and one in Chinese. Asked whether he could show our correspondent those two telegrams, the Foreign Commissioner, said "Surely"; and forthwith he pro- duced them. The one in English is

as follows:

"My dear Foreign Commissioner

Chu.

"Your telegrame have been

in Hong Kong whose object is to protect travellers and seafarers against these human pests and failing that to provide money for ransom or compensation to defen- dants. The new company which is registered under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinances, is called the Ping On Bandit Risk In- surance Co., Ltd. It has a capital of 8500.000 and undertakes to in- sure persons against being kidnap: ped, killed or wounded by bandits insure for more than 85,000.

CANTON, July 17th. During the past three days more than twenty Communists have been exécuted at the usual place in the north-eastern suburb of Canton. They included the notorious Maak Die Wah, Mok So, Li Bong, and Lama Shek, all of whom were caught during the raids on various haunts in the city during the intter part of June and the beginning of this month. These ringleaders of the outlaws have been in custody at the

Palicies are issued to bond fide Central Police Station, Wai Sun, Road, and have been standing their applicants on the condition that in case of being kidnapped by ban- trials during the past fortnight or

dits, the company will strive their | more. The utmost secrecy

utmost to effect the release of the maintained throughout, no pressmen being allowed to get any news for captive. They will first of all try" Tear that the rest of the Com-coercive means and if necessary munista might know and get clear pay

was

CHINESE MERCHANT AND HIS SON.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF

FORGERY."

LARGE SUM INVOLVED.

Forgery Of Signatura Alleged. Referring to the assignment of February, 103, Counsel said that Mr. Beavis prepared the document on lustractions from the limited Company, of which the two sons were the directors, but when the father was asked to sign the docu- Mx. ment he refused to do so. Beavis reprimanded the sons for the time wasted. Later the same day the son5 returned to Mr. Beavis's office with the news that' the father had signed the document

The caso for the prosecution was

A sum of $110,000 was mentioned as the amount involved in a case which opened at the Central Magis tracy yesterday before Mr. R. E. Lindsell when Fok Chung Yuen, the son of a wealthy Hong Kong that the signature was a forgery merchant, was accused of forging which, it not executed by the accus and uttering a deed of assignmented, was uttered by him to defraud in respect of property belonging to the father and the Bank of Cantan. his father, Fok Kam Chyen, in favour of Messrs. Thomas Simmons and Co., and of conspiring with his younger brother, Fok Tai Pui, to defraud his father and/or the Bank of Canton, Ltd, by means of the document.

Fok Chung Yuen has also to face other charges in connection with his disappearance while out on bail of $10,000 during the hearing of the Wing On forgery case in which two other men were convicted.

The next step, Counsel said, wor to negotiate with the Bank of Canton, for financial arrangements for the benefit of the new Thomas W. Simmons & Co., Ltd., and this was done by mortgaging the pro-

perties to the Bank in return, for facilities amounting to 8110,000. In May of that year, the deed of mortgage was executed, and it was extended to include the Hillier Street lot, and other property be longing to accused and a third brother jointly.

Mr. E. C. Jenkin, instructed by

Counsel stated that the father Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mas

was left in entire ignorance of the Tansom. Should this fall,ter, is for the prosecution and Mr. of the city. The examinations at they will invoke the assistance of H. G. Sheldon, instructed by arrangements, and when the Bank the Chinese Government to attack Messrs. Deacons, appears for the of Canton foreclosed on the mort- duly received and noted. I have the protracted trials revealed many the stronghold of the bandits defence. Mr. Bulmer Johnson, of gage and advertised the properties Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and for sale, he only found out by wee- They will even organise their væn force to wage war against the ron-Bowley, is watching the preceedingsing a notice in a newspaper. The accused had then decamped and Thomas W. Simmons & Co. had gone into liquidation.

Mr. Jenkin commented on the Father Reluctant To Give Evidence,

already consulted Marshal respecting your appointment as Foreign Vice-Minister, and he has agreed. The Tokyo post is re- served for you Accept first the Vice-Ministership.

(Signed) C. T. WANG,”- A free tranelation of the one in Chinese follows:

"My dear Foreign Commissioner

Chu.

were Li Communist haunts, which

systematically raided by the detse tives. More than a hundred arrests have been made during the past bers in order to free the person three weeks and while the great kidnapped. The company also has majority of the prisoners have been a staff of private detectives, who released upon proving their inno-are posted in parts of the interior cence, many of them are still de- where the populace is left to the tained awaiting further trial. All mercy of the bandits. - those who have been proved to be paid agents of the Chinese Com- The notorious Communists whose names have been mentioned all confessed that they were secretly sent to Canton to work with their confederates and that they were entrusted with the important posi- tiant in the Communist Party.

The company asks four months to effect the release of a captive"

an bebalf of an interested party.

Opening the casc, Mr. Jenkin said that, in the main, the charges concerned a deed of assignment executed on February 2nd, 1923, by Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist.

The accused, Fck Chung Yuen,

Chuen, a merchant trading in Hillier Street under the name of the Fook Lee Company, hardware dealers.

ti

difficult position in which the pro- secution was placed owing to the reluctance of the father to attend Court to give evidence in the case.

tor. Mr. Bulmer Johnson, asked

for an indication as to the points

It is with the greatest plen- sure that I inform you that you have been appointed Vice-Minie- ter for Foreign Affairs of the munist Party have been executed. and it it fails in that period, the was the second son of Fok Kam The father had, through his solici- Nationalist Government, and I wish to offer you my heart-felt congratulations. We shall hence forth co-operate in the solution of all the difficult national problems now confronting me. No words nt any command are sufficiently adequate to express my joy at your appointment to this post There are many important dipic matic affairs awaiting joint dis cursion and consideration. It is hoped that you will at once come to Nanking and assume office. I ehall be most happy to see you..

(Signed) CHENG-IING WANG."

"Yes, I Have.” Asked whether or not he has de- initely accepted the offer, Dr. Chu said, Yes, I have."

تو کہ

When will you then go to Nan king?" our correspondent inquired. "I may have to go to Nanking

That the Communists are by no

amount insured will be paid over to the captured person's relatives, Persons who are insured against banditry with this company will also receive compensation, varying from one-half to one-fourth of the amount insured, in cases of in- juries received from the hands of the robbers. This also applies to

Owing to advancing years, the father in 1918 decided to hand over the management of the firm to his son, and for that purpose gave him a power of attorney. At the time the father was the owner of six

No. 30, Hillier Street, and No. 20, Square Street, deeds in respect of. which were entrusted to the accused for safe-keeping. The deeds of other properties which Counsel would hereafter refer to as the Hillier Street lot, because they comprised five houses all situated in the same locality, were then under mortgage to the Asia, Banking Corporation for 837,000.

means eradicated from Canton is further evidenced by the fact that Mr. Chang Ki, patrol commandant of, the Folice district, has just dis-, persons wounded by thieves break-properties, including godowns at covered in Sai Wah Alley, nearing into their homes. Tai Tak Road, a fresh poster issued Cargo is also insured against by a big Labour Union, of a banditry, and piracy, but the rates decidedly Communist nature which, before the days of the Ching-tang vary according to the nature of (purge the parts) movement, had the goods and the ports to which spread terror and tyranny to the they are destined. merchants. The notice was found posted on the wall and near it seditious statements were written. It was at once torn down and taken to the Police Station. The Union to assume office as a matter of

in question has been officially pro form," the Foreign Commissioner

scribed and its existence is illegal. replied, "but if I could be excused

As the result of these discoveries the usual inaugural ceremonies in

been relaxed for some time, are such a post, I would not go.

The prin- should like to remain in Canton again heing enforced. and do the work by telegraph. But cipal thoroughfares of the city are if this cannot be done, then I shall Again vigilantly guarded by armed nights, and belated way be compelled to go to Nanking for soldiers

farers are having difficulty in get the inaugural formalities. I shall not stay long at the national capi- ting from street to street. tál, but will return to Canton as it is reported that most of the ment had done nothing to effect branch of a firm in California, and

The rate for personal insurance is $25 per $1,000 per annum, 815 for six months and 810 for three months No person is allowed to insure for more than 5,000. ing director of this enterprising & Daily Press representative yester day, he stated that the company was one of the natural outcomes of present conditions. People had again and again been kidnapped by bandits and the Chinese Govern-

Mr. Ma Tat. Nam is the manag

connection with the assumption, of octurnal restrictions, which had company, and in conversation with under the name of the Fook Lee &

8001

I

"You

now under construction is properly

“I understand you are also to be appointed Ambassador to Japan. How about that"post"

Communists, remaining

their release. When a man of fading small means is captured by out Canton too dangerous for further laws, his family is often unable to activitice, have gone to the northern pay ransom or to get any satisfac part of the Province to continuetion out of the Government. It is their nefarious work.

ex-

The company's offices are at Nos. 268 and 268 Des Voeux Road Central

which he would be required to give evidence. Sincs supplying this Counsel understood that a Dr. Ho had advised the man to go on a trip to the North Whether the advice had been acted upon of not he was unaware, but if the man was still bere it might be necessary to ask for a sub-poema to get him to Court.

Kam

Witness Not Found."- Sergeant Cleme gave evidence of obtaining subpoenas c behalf of the prosecution for Fok Chaen, the socused's father, the ad- dresses being 6, Hillier Street and 86, Kowloon Tong. He served the subpoena at the Hillier Street address at 7.25 p.m. on Monday and at the Kowloon" address at 6 p.m. Mr. Lindwell:-Did you see any- one who admitted being the person on the subpoena ?

Witness-No.

You merely loft a copy at each address-Yes.

Mr. Jenkin handed in a certificate, from Dr. S. C. Ho recommending Mr. Fox to go abroad.

Ar. Jenkin then called Fok Kam

rant.

Mr. Lindsell: Failing personal. service, you must prove that these two addresses are the known ad- dresses of the man.

A New Firm And An Amalgamation. In 1919, when the Fook Lee firm was still in existence, the accused, Tat Pul, opened a new business with a younger brother named Fok

Company with an office in York Building, in which the father had no interest whatever. "In the same building was another Chuen but there was no response. Mr. Jenkin: In those circum firm named Thomas W. Simmons stances, I ask for the usual war- & Company, which was, possibly a the two offices were separated mere ly by a partition. The manager of this arm was a man named Burdin. At the end of 1920, the two firma decided to smalgamate, under the name of Thomas W. Simmons & Co., Ltd, and for that purpose Fook Lee & Co. made two agree ments with Thomas W. Simmons company, these two agreemente bestro 10 assigning its business to the new ing incorporated into a supplemen Did he then swear that he re tary and final agreement in aided at 8, Hillier Street, Hong- January, 1921,

Kong-Yes, sir; as far as I reinem ber, he did."

Did you remember him swearing" it was his family house?--Yes, the upper doors

Did you yesterday accompany Bergeant Clemo to that address !---

as conditions permit, ser, I have a lot of work to do bere. Besides being Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, I san & men-

to provide these two things money ber of the Provincial Council and

and influence in these enses that have to help with the administra-

the Ping On Bandit Risk In tion of the Province. Furthermore,

surnace Co. has been formed..... I want to remain in Canton to see

Assistant Minister of Foreign

Any person insuring with this that the Kwong-Poon-Fab highway | Affairs under Wang Cheng Ting,”

offering the excuse thus, he chine company, he said, could travel with finished. As you know, I am 902

to Kwangtung to look after his fall into the hands of bandits, of the two originators of this pro- mother, and does not want to go there was a company of no little ject.'

away." By this same token, it con- influence behind him, who would tinues, Mr. Chu does not aspire to strive their utmost to set him free, The agreement also included the THE AMBASSADORSHIP TO the fort of Minister to Japan.

even to the extent of paying a ran-taking over of the liabilities and, Sheer nonsense!" Dr. Chu re-som The company is a boon to in consideration thereof, Fook Lee JAPAN:

plied, "such a report is inaccur ships officers and crews, in & Co. were to szign to the new rate and is capable of conveying the change for a small initial outlay, Company certain properties which erronous idea that I don't want to they get the protection of a kind they claimed to possess. The agree serve under Dr. C. T. Wang, which which no other Insurance com ment therefore assigned to the new is entirely untrue. As regards the panier could give to them.

Thomas W. Simmons & Co., Ltd., "That post," Dr. Chu replied, post of Minister to Japan, while 1

the propertica under, mortgage to will not materialize for some don't aspire to it, if the Govern-

the Asia Banking Corporation and time yet. You see, credentials must ment wants me to take it, I would

also those held by the Bank of be issued. But they cannot be In fact the Nationalist Government

Canton as security for debts in issued until de jure recognition has has already offered me that. Im

curred by Fook Lee & Co. The case been accorded to the Nationalist partant post, and I have provision-

for the prosecution would be that Government by the Foreign Governally accepted it. All this you can

the prisoner and his brother had no ments All th's "will necessarily see from the telegram which I

right or authority from the father take time. But the Tokyo post is have just shown you, stating that

to 4sign thone properties. reserved for me as you saw in one the Tokyo post is reserved for me." of the telegrams from Dr., 0. T Wang, and 1 that most likely go to Japan when the time comes.

Asked why he wanted to go to Japan, the Foreign Commisioner said that he welcomed it because the Tokyo post was fraught with heavy and difficult diplomatic work in the matter of treaty revision and settlement of questions outstanding between China and Jepan. #Fur thermore," he said, "Japan is such a beautiful and picturesque egun"" try, a country so near Chinat

Our correspondent then called the attention of the Foreign Commis sioner to the fact that in a certain Hong Kong newspaper last Batur day a news item from its Canton correspondent stated that "Chu Chao-fisin has no intention of go ing to Nanking to become the (Continued on, next Column),

ON MILITARY GROUND.

CHINESE FINED FOR TRESPASSING.”

In the original agreement for the incorporation of the new Company, which Mr. Beavis was asked to put through, the two sons were indicat

The Commissioner laughed when our correspondent directed his

A Chinese appeared before Major attention to a statement made in C. Wilson at the Central Magis the same report that "the story tracy yesterday morning for tres-ed as the only partners in the Fook has grown from a molchill to a passing on Military ground at the Les & Go and no provision was mountain, the impression being Murray Barracks.

made for the signature or participa given that Chu Chao Hain aspires Private J. Morrison gave evi- tion of the father. Counsel. point- to the position of Minister at dence to the effect that he was oned out a radical change between Tokyo." "There is neither mole duty with the regimental police at the original and final agreements. hill nor mountain about it," he em-7 p.m. on Monday when he saw the At the latter date it became neces defendant coming from the direc.sary to sign the properties to the phatically said.

Continuing, Dr. Chu emphatically tion of the General's main door. new Company, and it became neces denied the allegation made at the As soon as he saw the witness, sary to include the father's name close of the report in question that defendant changed his direction as a partner in the firm: Counsel at the last meeting of the Canton and attempted to avoid him. The again emphasised that the father Branch of the Political Council be trespasser was chseed and was was not connected with the sour raised his voice in protest against handed over to the civil police. Company. the appointment of Ewock Ping as The defendant claimed that he Commissioner of Foreign Affairs to was walking on the road near the Peiping." "I never did anything Military Barracks when he was of the sort, he said.. How could arrested,rracks when

His Worship imposed a fine of $15 with the alternative of two weeks' hard labour.

I raise my voice in protest in the Political Council when I am not even member of that body 1"

On becoming directors of the new Company, the two sons became in- volved in a later fraud on the Bank an of Canton in respect of deeds de

posited as securities for liabilities incurred when they functioned as the Fook Lee & Co. ""

Mr. Jenkin then put Mr. Un How Fan, Secretary of the Bank of Can- ton, in the witnesa box.

Mr. Jeakin: Were you present in the Supreme Court, when Fok Kam Chuen, as plaintiff in C. J. Action 160 of 1923, give evidence-Yes,

Yea

.....

Did you go to the upper floor and enquire from occupants whether Fok Kam Chuen lived there 1-Yes, sir; I asked for bins.

Did you understand from them that that was one of his residences? Yes, sir; & girl was there who claimed to be a daughter of Fok Kam Chuen.

Did you also attend with Sergt. Clemb at 88, Kowloon Tong?--Yes, ainda,

Did you make enquiry of the oc cupants as to whether that was an- other of Mr. Fok Kam Chuen's ad- dresses? Yes, sir, but they said he was not there.

Did you understand he was not present 1-Yes, sir; they asked us to go to Hillier Street

Mr. Bulmer Johnson said he had instructions to say that Fok Kam Chuen was not in the Colony,

In view of this his Worship asked Mr. Jenkin if he still applied for

a warrant to be issued, ple

Mr. Jenkin replied that he still desired it, as from enquiries made he gathered that Fok Kam Chuen was probably still here.

Hi Worship announced that he would issue a warrant to bring the witness, if possible, before the Court on Tuesday at 11:15 am.. and the Court then adjourned.

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